>A very sad story. I went to download the latest version of this program
>as a demo from their site only to find some Pr... had hacked the site>and replaced the demo with a hard drive destroying substitute.>>When I went to install the demo it cleared the desktop which was my>first hint and then while I thought the installer was preparing to do>its stuff it started to erase folders alphabetically from the drive.>!@#$%^>>I reset the computer when I noticed the drive light being a little too>active.>>I lost lots of program files and unfortuneately my accounts which I>hadn't backed up externally for fortnight. (another lesson).>>No virus checker can pick up this sort of malicious act.>>Martin
Martin:
Two things.
1. Do you have Norton? If so, I think you can undelete.
2. I have a 60G hard drive that I use only for backups. I simply drag
my "in use" HD's to it and go watch TV -- it makes for some very
easy backups.
tedd
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